Boy, 13, fatally shot by police after pulling out BB gun

A 13-year-old boy was shot and killed by a Columbus Police officer responding to an armed robbery report Wednesday night.

"The Columbus Police Department has a history of investigating itself following these officer involved shootings and we believe that these investigations are inherently biased", Brown said.

Officers responding to an armed robbery call chased down two subjects near the scene. The victim told officers that a group of males had demanded money, threatening him with a gun, police said. Officers gave chase and King and another man ran into an alley where a policeman shot him multiple times after he pulled a weapon from his trousers, police told the station.

Tyree King, 13, was shot by a police officer in an alley east of downtown when he displayed what appeared to be a gun during a confrontation with police on Wednesday, authorities told an NBC affiliate in Columbus. When officers caught up to them and tried to arrest them in an alley, King pulled what appeared to be a handgun from his waistband, and Mason shot him, police said.

Down the block, officers spotted three males who matched the description of the alleged robbers, and two of them ran away when officers tried to speak with them, police said.

The officers and other suspects were not injured, WBNS-TV reports.

After the fatal shooting, on-scene investigators recovered a BB gun, which King allegedly brandished. He expressed condolences to King's family and said it was "absolutely critical that we get this (investigation) right". "We're talking about a 13-year-old that made a decision", Columbus police spokesman Sgt.

The gun "turns out not to be a firearm in the sense that it fires real bullets, but.it looks like a firearm that can kill you".

The family's legal team called for an independent investigation. He later died at a hospital.

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The man who was robbed said $10 was taken from him and described the gun as a pistol.

Jacobs would not comment on details of the shooting, maintaining that it was less than 24 hours since the incident and she was still gathering facts.

Police said Thursday that they couldn't immediately provide other information from Mason's personnel record.

"There is something wrong in this country, and it is bringing its epidemic to our city streets", Ginther said Thursday.

Evidence from the shooting will automatically be presented to a grand jury to determine whether the officer's actions were justified.

Police followed them and attempted to arrest them, police said.

"Any loss of life is tragic, but the loss of a young person is particularly hard", Columbus Mayor Andrew J. Ginther said at the briefing Thursday.

The hashtag #TyreeKing was among the most used on Twitter in the United States on Thursday morning and Columbus officials called for calm during the investigation.

Tyre's death in Columbus came nearly two years after Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old in Cleveland, was fatally shot while holding a toy gun. " Columbus police released a sketch of what King's BB gun looked like, pointing out similarities between it and a real handgun".

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